2024-04-12 04:40:29
Andrés Villegas, lawyer for the former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas, asked a court this Thursday to annul his detention inside the Mexican Embassy in Quito after having received asylum and order the Ecuadorian State to deliver Glas back to Mexico or to a third country that undertakes to also give him asylum.
In the judicial hearing of the habeas corpus appeal against the detention of Jorge Glas, The lawyer argued that the capture of former vice president Rafael Correa was illegal because it did not follow any regulated criteria and was arbitrary because his human rights were violated by depriving him of the asylum that had been granted to him.
In that sense, The lawyer asked the chamber of the National Court of Justice that evaluates the habeas corpus that he be released again and handed over to the nearest diplomatic mission, after Mexico has closed its Embassy in Quito after the events, or an embassy of another country that also undertakes to welcome him as an asylum seeker.
Villegas asked that the Government display the order given “in writing” by President Daniel Noboa to forcefully break into the diplomatic headquarters of Mexico and questioned that the police report on this operation has been declared “secret” so that the details are not known.
The lawyer pointed out that “it is evident that there was no search warrant” against the Mexican Embassy and that the diplomatic mission was not previously consulted about the possibility of carrying out this procedure, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For Villegas, the judicial resolution that legalized Glas’ detention “has half-truths and a half-truth is equal to a lie,” pointing out that the document did not reflect the alleged acts of torture that his client claims was a victim. during the capture procedure.
“Not only was the penal code (of Ecuador) violated, but also norms of universal and regional international law. The principle of inviolability of diplomatic missions was violated, and they took personal property such as cell phones and even an electronic tablet belonging to Jorge Glas,” the lawyer said about the seized items.
Glas sees himself supported as “politically persecuted”
In his speech from prison, Glas indicated that he was beaten by the police who arrested him, that they dislocated two of his fingers and that they took him out of the Embassy handcuffed and carried with his arms behind him, in “a position of torture” that he even claimed that It was being broadcast “live and direct” without knowing who was on the other side of the screen.
Glas also pointed out that the asylum granted by the Government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is “a recognition.” that he is “a politically persecuted person”, which he maintains to declare himself innocent of the judicial processes and sentences against him.
For its part, The judge of Penitentiary Guarantees of the National Court of Justice, Melissa Muñoz, recalled that at the time Glas entered the Mexican Embassy he did not have an arrest warrant, which was later issued because he was accused of alleged embezzlement (embezzlement of public funds) in the case of the reconstruction of Manabí, the province most affected by the 2016 earthquake.
Likewise, he specified that Glas, who was Correa’s vice president and at the beginning of the Lenín Moreno administration (2017-2021), had to return to prison to finish serving an eight-year sentence, the product of two convictions for bribery and illicit association issued in previous years.
Government of Ecuador ignores asylum
For her part, the Minister of the Interior and Government, Mónica Palencia, justified Glas’s arrest by saying that for the Ecuadorian Executive there was never asylum for the former vice president, since the Diplomatic Asylum Convention maintains that it cannot be granted to anyone prosecuted for common crimes. .
He also ruled out any persecution of Glas, “who has been prosecuted since 2017, when Noboa was not yet president, and not for political crimes.”
Glas’s arrest led Mexico to break relations with Ecuador and denounce him before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, considering that both its sovereignty and international law have been violated.
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